Tiny Sophisticates

Oh, the kids are growing up before our very eyes! Here, a group of soon-to-be-second-graders cut up for my camera on a year end field trip to the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. And to think, just a few years ago all those taxidermy animals would have elicited tears and nightmares from the little tykes.

“Don’t be afraid,” I foolishly told my group as we entered the hall of North American mammals. “These animals can’t hurt you.”

“They’re just dead, Mrs. Allee,” one of the boys reassured me. “It’s not like they’re zombies.”